One hundred Years of solitude The village Mocondo is founded by the fated cousins Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia who are escaping from the past. In the beginning the "village [is] truly happy" (pg. 18), yet as children, and then grandchildren come, patterns become apparent. The Buendia family blindly follows the mistakes of their ancestors, forgetting their past, living in and seeking solitude, and never feeling true love. JAB (Jose Arcadia Buendia) has dreams of "infinite …showed first 75 words of 1087 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1087 total…to dust, there is still this book. The book that is a message for us, saying that we must not "live in the land of mirrors"; we must continue to look around and see what is going on, otherwise we will never progress, but will live in circles until our death. The only way to break the repeated patterns is to acknowledge that history is repeating itself, and that yes, we do want to change.